http://www.occupydemocrats.com/hobby-lobby-decision-backfiring-as-satanists-turn-the-tables/
While evangelical conservatives have been celebrating their victory
in this Supreme Court ruling, it has now prompted similar lawsuits from
the opposite end of the religious spectrum — and even satanists.
It seems of all sources, new litigation may be forth coming from an
organization of satanists or satan worshipers known as the “Satanic
Temple”. They are planning on using the recent Supreme Court ruling in
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby to argue for their own sense of “religious
freedom”, making the case that their members who seek abortions in
states that have state-mandated informed consent laws that require women
considering abortions to read pro-life material, should be exempt from
doing that based on religious grounds.
Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves is very optimistic in
their chances of getting a favorable ruling for their “religious
freedonm” argument. “While we feel we have a strong case for an
exemption regardless of the Hobby Lobby ruling,” he said, “the Supreme
Court has decided that religious beliefs are so sacrosanct that they can
even trump scientific fact. This was made clear when they allowed Hobby
Lobby to claim certain contraceptives were abortifacients, which in
fact they are not.”
While nothing has been decided yet in this case, it seems that a
Pandora’s Box of new “religious freedom” cases and arguments and
exemptions based on religion is now open and may be flooding our courts
in the coming years.
Hopefully they keep it up, and show Hobby Lobby why the separation of church and state is so important.
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